Date: 11/10/98; 5:34:56 PM
From: Joshua Joseph Dodds <jjd0009@unt.edu>
Subject: Pat Green Tabs: Songs About Texas

	From:	Joshua Joseph Dodds

	Song:	Songs About Texas

	Written by: Walt Wilkins	Performed by: Pat Green

	Album:	George's Bar

	Notes:	This Pat Green's most famous song, and rightly so.  It is very easy, though.  
	The Picking pattern is simply: picking the low base string, followed by picking the top 
	several high strings. The 'hidden' song on "George's Bar", which is a cool acoustic 	
	version,  is easier to learn from.  In the chorus the names: "Guy Clark/Jerry Jeff 	
	Walker/Robert Earl Keen/Townes 	Van Zant" are used interchangably.  These lyrics are 	
	taken directly from the book, so they are how the song was written not sung. The only 	
	semi-confusing part is at the end of the chorus, there are three things: 
		1)At the end of the thrid line while singing the word 'cold', Pat Green either 
		 uses an F#m, or a regular A. (Live, I saw him use an F#m. But it sounds ok to 	
		 use an A instead) 
		2)The way the song is originally written, the chorus includes two extra lines.  
		 In the regular version I don't think they are used at all. Instead, the line 
		 "I'm going home" is used. In the acoustic version the 'extra' lines are used.  
		 It's up to you.	I'll star(***) where the 'extra' lines begin.
		3)There are two versions of the chorus with the same notes, apply the chords 
		 from the first chorus to the second chorus.


        A
 I sing songs about Texas
D                   A
 Sing then often as if she was some old lover
E
 I used to know
A                         D                           A
 Wish I could follow them back to the homeland every time 
                  E   A
 I hear one on my radio

Twin fiddles playing in my memory
My daddy sang the wonders of old cow town
Silver hair and he's still there under a sky so warm and fair
I tell you friends there's a song in every town.

        E                      D              A
chorus: Sing me one more song about old San Antone
       E                              D         A
	Seems like a dream now it was so long ago    (A)
       E                                D            f#m E   
	Guy Clark he can be just like a coat from the cold
       A                 D                        A
     ***Songs about Texas sing them often every time*** 
	E                   A
     ***I think I've got no home***

chorus:	Sing me one more song about old San Antone
  #2	them honky tonk angels and their lonely be hive pain
	wish I was stowed away on some fast moving train going home

additional lyrics: 

Nothing short of the gospel hymns
I guess that's why folks keep writing 'um 
and when I die
I want to go there too

Someday I hope to walk along heavens street
I'll still be looking for my taco meat
and I swear I hear a steel guitar
just rising in the air

When the night is real real still 
I swear I could hear a Whipperewill
she knows there's music in the in the dirt down there
Hill Country rain is a cleansing thing and I have to see one 	
and I'll be sitting in a shallow creek with nothing to do